lunes, 7 de junio de 2010

Camagüey foments cultivations covered against solar radiations

The agriculture in the county uses the cultivation covered in almost 17 hectares, in order to harvest in months of high environmental temperatures some varieties of vegetables characteristic of the winter season.

Enormous meshes serve from parasol to the fields and facilitate a reduction of about the third part from the solar radiation of May to September, creating a favorable atmosphere for the development of plants as tomato, carrot, lettuce, beet, melon, cucumber and pepper.

Ricardo Morell, boss of the Department of Science and Technique in the delegation of the Ministry of the Agriculture (MINAG), said to the AIN that the cover is one of the actions directed to adapt the agricultural exploitation to the effects of the climatic change.

Also, it constitutes an advance in the purpose of elevating the production of those foods in any time of the year.

The use of this technology has two variants, that of protected cultivation and that of semiprotected.

In the first one the mesh covers the whole seed area, included the lateral ones, while in the other one it is only the part of up.

Benito Vega, specialist of the MINAG, explained that one works in the recovery of little more than hectare and he mediates of the calls houses of protected cultivation, damaged by the hurricanes of 2008 when could not be disassembled.

The crops in those facilities that ascended to some 200 tons during the current year, are dedicated to the service of the tourism, in order to take advantage of part of the revenues in the maintenance of the infrastructure and in the acquisition of inputs for the plantations.

Guillermo Rivera, also of the MINAG, pointed out that the semiprotected is developed in organoponics of the movement of the urban agriculture, with more than 500 tons of products gathered in 2010.

At the moment one works to create cultivation conditions covered in other two surfaces in agricultural use.(LuciloTejera Díaz)

Premiation ceremony closes the curtains of Festival of Theater Camagüey 2010

Abel Prieto (I), Minister of Culture, gives the Prize of better Design to Cenen Calero in the closing of the XIII National Festival of Theater, in the Main Theater of Camagüey.
Picture: Rodolfo Blanco Cué


The minister of Culture Abel Prieto Jiménez, member of the Political Desk of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), attended this Saturday to the Elegance of premiations of the XIII National Festival of Theater Camagüey 2010, where he obtained the Great Prize the collective Argus Theater, with the Final work of Departure, in the category of productions for adults.

Gallery: Festival of Theater in Camagüey

Final of having Left it also deserved rewards in the sections of masculine performance, granted to Pancho García and to Waldo Franco and in that of Design, for Manolo Garriga, Vladimir Cuenca and Alain Ortiz.

In the category of adults, also ran off with with prizes the piece Eggs, of Mefisto Theater, in the category of Text; The first time, of Theater of the Moon-that also highlighted in music, setting in scene and in feminine performance, with Yordanka Ariosa in union of Ana Robers, of the company of Camagüey Theater of the Wind, worthy besides mentions in Design and in setting in scene.

In the specialty of Theater for Children, the decisions of the jury relapsed at night in the works Federico, of the group Theater of the Stations, which monopolized similar laurels in setting in scene, Music, feminine Performance for Farah Madrigal and in masculine, for Freddy Maragoto, among other distinguished ones.

The Elegance of premiations of the National Festival of Theater Camagüey 2010 had the presence of the maximum authorities of the PCC, of the Government and of the Cultural System in the county and got rich with the performances of groupings as the Ballet of Camagüey would dance , Folkloric Ballet, Camagüey In Dedans and to Walk . (Yolanda Ferrera Sosa.)

June 7: Cuba celebrates the librarian's Day

Provincial library of Camagüey

The librarians have a protagonistic paper in the schools in the development of the docent - educational process and the integral formation of the children, adolescents and youths.

The master in education María Rosa Sánchez Ramos, national metodologer of the primary teaching in the Ministry of Education highlighted that these specialists facilitate the existent bibliography in the educational institutions, meantime, support the teacher's work fundamentally in providing the infantile literature, to teach the correct use of the dictionary from third grade, text that have for its work all the school centers of Cuba, with what the students enlarge the vocabulary, they solve the problems of the spelling and enlarge their culture.

Sánchez Ramos added that another of the slopes of the work of the librarians is to give to the teacher texts, magazines and pamphlets of interest for his classes; also, it develops the reading habit to the students through the martian works that are important for the content that contain and the beauty of its expression; it supports the content of the study plans with the extraclass reading that are indicated of agreement with the grades.

Another aspect of its work is the competitions for subject, designed in occasions by the own school and the community.

There are also of essential help in the investigation work and the students' creation, when putting in hands of these the texts that need to carry out their studies and to deepen in certain topics.

In honor to an illustrious Cuban

June 7 ,1812 were born in Havana of the most famous Cuban intellectuals: Antonio High school and Morales, journalist, historian, lawyer and bibliographer.

Consulted founds points:” one of its more outstanding works was: Point for the History of the Letters and the Public Instruction in the Island of Cuba, important contribution to the knowledge of our cultural history published in the years 1859, 1860 and 1861. In this the first bibliographies that were elaborated in the country appears: Catalog of books and pamphlets published in Cuba from the introduction of the printing and its list of periodic publications published until the year 1840, which was published with the name of ‘Periodic Publications ' (reasoned Catalog and chronological up to 1840).

Antonio Bachiller and Morales is recognized as Father of the Cuban Bibliography, and in honor to the day of his birth was instituted June 7 like “Day of the Cuban Librarian”. (Taken of digital Radio Rebelde).